The Sun. — London, England, 1838-02-05 00:00:00

BOROUGH OF MAR YLEBONE. THE Committee appointed to defend the Elec tors of Marylebone, in consequence of the Petition pre sented by the Tories for the purpose of seating Lord Teignme",!th. in the place of Sir Samuel Whalley, and which alleges ',l-1!, air Samuel Whalley was returned at the late electio::,,7-:Colourable majority, solicit the friends of Reform to • :..,pr,'Ort, by their sub scriptions, the Marylebone Electors in . ensuing contest. The day for taking such petit:::m into the 20th February in s t an t. o consideration is fixed fet" Subscriptions rgill be received by Messrs , . Grote, Pi•elekt, and Groto, Threadneedle -street; the Marylt-rone Bank, '9, Cavendish square ; the, Treasurer, Dr. Fellovges, 31, Dorset--sqttare ; and the Seeretar j . 89, Chancery-l a n e , a n d N o. 13 , M orn ington-etn?, Hampstead -road. JOSEPH IVIMEI% `lien.. Sec. ! YOUNG LADY 'r es idi ng oith her Parents, 1Z in a respectable and airy situaliori, Is desirous of the CARE :and EDUCATION of TWO et THREE CHILDREN, at any age under Twelve. Should this meet the eye of any Widower, who wishes to 'put his children from home, they would find all the com fort of One, as her own and Mother's time would be entirely dedi cated to them. Music and Dancing will be taught if required. Address to E. F., 1, Southampton-street, Pentonville. • OPERA BUFFA. THEATRE ROYAL. LYCEUM. LAST WEEK BUT ONE OF THE SEASON. MR. MITCHELL begs respectfully to acquaint thel:Tobility, Gentry, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, that he is permitted to announce FIVE ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCES At this Theatre, whidi will take place in the following order, and terminate the Representations of the present Season. (Subscribers who may be desirous of continuing their Boxes or Stalls for these Performances, are solicited to intimate their wishes as early as possible.) TO-MORROW, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, Will be Performed (Last Time) INlercadante's Opera, in Two Acts, ELISA E CLAUDIO. Between the Acts the Overture to La Gana Ladra. ON THURSDAY NEXT, FEBRUARY 8, (BY COMMAND OF HER MAJESTY,) Donezetti's Opera, D' ELSIR And P..II,TLY. SATURDA':, FEBRUARY 10, (For the Last Time), Mozart's Grand Opera, LE li r OZZE DI FIGARO. /3ctweelt the Acts, (by desire) Mozart's Overture to Zauberflote. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, (Last Time), Rossini's Opera, in Two Acts, L'ITALIANA IN ALGIERI. With Donizetti's Farce, IL CAMPANELLO. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15. (Last Night of the Season), Donizetti's Opera, in One Act, BETLY. And Ricci's Opera, SC ARAM U C C I A. Director, Signor PUZZI. Conductor, M. BENEDICT. Leader, Mr. MORI . at commence at 1- Doors open at Eight o'Clock. Th e O pera will commence at %if-past Eight. B cxes and Pit 65., Gal lery, 2s. 6d. Applications for Boxes and Stalls to be made at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, No. 33, Old Bond-street; at Mr. Seguin's Library, 12, Regent- s t reet: and at the Box-office of the Theatre, where Places may be secured. AN ITH WHICH " THE TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LoNDWI4 - 7 --- MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1838. We cannot reconcile Mr. O'CONNELL'S conduct upon the question of a general Poor-law for Ireland with any recognized principle of Christian philan trophy, enlarged statesmanship, or even common sense. Having utterly failed, after years of discuision and argument, to convince even a respectable minority of the intelligent portion of the Irish people, that a Poor-law is not imperatively necessary to the future well-being of that country, it might naturally be ex pected that he would now give way to the overwhelm ing majority who differ from him—content with having exerted himself, while there was a hope of success, in endeavouring to bring that majority over to his opi nion. Mr. O ' CONNELL must admit that the advo cates of a Poor-law are influenced by the most bene volent motives—that they are engaged in a struggle for the starving poor against the rich ; and his know ledge of the wretchedness of Ireland must satisfy him that no change in the condition of the rural popula tion can be much for the worse. How, then, comes it that we find the Hon. and Learned Gentlemen exert ing all his influence to frustrate the benevolent intentions of the Government—employing all the powers of his great mind to neutralise the beneficial working of any Poor-law in Ireland by previously sowing the seeds of suspicion, distrust, and discontent in the public mind ? Defeated on the principle of a Poor-law, he takes his stand on the imperfection of proposed details ; and if he be pressed to propose his own amendments upon such details, he turns round and re-attacks the prin ciple. This shilly-shally system of opposition to the measure places him in a false position—in a position in which he cannot continue without the greatest de triment to his character as a Statesman and a Patriot. Tens of thousands of the poor of Ireland are literally famishing, and Mr. O'CONNELL would agree so far with the principle of the proposed Poor-law as to give them—physic 1 Our readers may look astonished— incredulous ; but we are stating a simple fact. Within the last fortnight a public meeting was held in Dublin for the express purpose of discussing the merits of the Go vernnt Bill for the relief of the Irish poor. Mr. O ' CONNELL attended, and in a speech of great length, addressed more to the passions than the under standing of his numerous auditors, admitted that relief should be provided for the indigent to the follow ing munificent extent : You know there is one point upon which we are all agreed, and that is the necessity which exists in Ireland for additional medical relief to the poor. There is no one more anxious than I am that hospitals should be erected where the sick and hurt poor should obtain abundant relief. There ean be no danger that by doing this objects will be multiplied, as must be the ease with a Poor-law for the healthy labourer, when a man who gets two shillings and sixpence will be tempted to go and drink it, not caring for the consequences, because, as he'll say, " Oh, what need I care ; there's a poor-house for me to go if I should want assistance."—( Hear, hear.) No man will break his leg, in order that he may be sent to an hospital; nor can any impositio n b e p rac tic e d when a man goes in ; for, did he attempt it, the doctor would soon give him medicine which would make the fellow bolt, and run off in a very great hurry. —( Laughter. )" `Were this the language of any other man than DANIEL O'CONNELL—Of any man whose life had not been, like his, devoted to the political re generation of his native country—we would not hesitate to denounce it as the most heartless ever employed on such an occasion, and on such a subject. The poor are dying of hunger, and Mr. O'CONNELL proposes to supply them gratuitously with bulusses, pills, and emetics. Mr. O'CONNELL would not object to the gratuitous cure of disease, but he objects to the compulsory removal of the cause of it by the opulent—namely, starvation. Provide the people with plenty of food and warm clothing, and they will easily dispense with any addition to the present number of fever-hospitals. We really pity the poor on all sides. To their cries for food Lord FARNHAM responds by offering a Bible, and Mr. O'CONNELL by presenting a pill-box and a dose of salts. Respecting the principle of Poor-laws, Mr. O ' CONNELL stated it as his deliberate opinion, " that they never give relief to those who are worthy of it ; that they promote idleness ; that they take money from those who cannot afford to give it, and give it to those who ought not to receive it ; that they dry up the true source from which the giving of alms should spring—pity, and bounty, anti Christian charity ;" and yet he complained loudly of the conduct of Ministers in not consulting him upon the measure which they intended to propose, and added that Ireland could only hope for justice from a domestic Legislature ! Where is the consis tency, or the fairness of this inference ? If Mr. O'CONNELL is of opinion that Poor-laws are so bane ful in principle, it would be an insult to him to request his co-operation in framing one for his native country ; and the Government acted with delicacy and judg ment in not troubling him upon the subject. Besides, it was unnecessary to ascertain views already well known to all the world. As if to refute all that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had ever urged against the necessity of a Poor-law, he read to the meeting the following extract from Mr. NICHOL CS report of the state of the poor in Donegal, to the truth of which he himself bore testimony " Nothing can exceed the miserable appearance of the cot tages in Donegal, or the desolate as p ect o f a c l uster o f those hovels, always teeming with an ex cess i ve popu l at i on . Yet if you enter their cabins, and converse with them frankly and kindly, you will find the people intelligent and communicative, quick to comprehend, and ready to impart what they know. There was no employment for the young people, nor relief for the aged, nor means nor opportunity of removing their surplus numbers to some more eligible spot. They could only, therefore, live on "hopin g ," as t h ey sa id , t h at "ti me s m ight mend, and that their landlords would sooner or later do something for them." Yet with all this suff!rin ,, , no disturb ance or acts of violence has occurred in Donegal. During the severe privations of the last summer, when numbers were ac tually in want of subsistence, there was no dishonesty, no disturbance—the people starved, but they would not steal."— [Here the Learned Gentleman became so affected that he was obliged to throw down the book from which he was reading, and for some time could not contin ue —h e was loudly cheere d . ] I beg your pardon, it does unman me.—( Renewed cheering.) There was no disturbance, no plundering, no violence, no dishonesty—the people starved, but they would not steal. — (Tremendous cheers). Oh, God 1 and these are the op pressed Irish—these are the calumniated and insulted Irish— these are the people who are described as uncivilized and bar_ barons.—( cheere.)" Th. P^ — " ;qr. U'MALLEY, in an able and eloquent speech, in favour of the Government Bill, thus forcibly alludes to the emotion butayed by Mr. O'CogliELL . , in reading the above extract:— " Is there, or can there be, any mystification of this broad glaring fart, that tho-e iri tl melancholy amount of destitution in the land, and that the greater the amount the greater ne cessity of a law to regulate its relief ?—( Hear, hear.) Is there, or there be tiny mystification of the avowed and heart rending truth, " that tho people starved, but they would not steal ; " and, gracious Heavens ! are we to Suter them to starve, because we cannot agree as to the exact number that perishes ? You witnessed, Sir, the emotion with which Mr. O'Connell read to us that touching passage of Mr. Nicholl's hitid hearted report ; but how strangely wayward are the human sympa thies • ' he weeps over the affliction, and yet stre nuous l y res i sts the only sure method of redress. He talked, to be sure, of charity as a redress, but whence is this charity to come ? Shall we suffer the poor peasant, who alone witnesses the misery of those " who starve but will not steal," to snatch for its relief the potatoe from the mouth of his own hungry child? What a melancholy mockery, to heap our idle praises upon his heroic sacrifice, and yet take no step to render that sacrifice unnecessary.—(Cheers.)" The conclusion of the Rev. Gentleman's speech embodies a powerful attack upon Mr. O'CoNNELL's conduct upon the Poor-law question—powerful be cause true—and one too, which will not be overlooked when the details of the Bill come to be discussed in the House of Commons. " We, who are in favour of the principle of a Poor-law," argued Mr. O'MALLEY, " have just cause to complain of Mr. O'CONNELL'S manner of dealing with the one now under consideration. He tells us one day he con cedes the principle and only combats the details ; and he tells us next, as he has told us to-day, that he ob jects to the principle. He exclaimed two years ago, when addressing the Trades—' Would to GOD I could invent some good plan ; or what I would like better, that some one would invent it for me.' If he wishes for a plan, why oppose the principle alto gether ? And if he is opposed to the principle, why call for a plan, if not to cavil at it ? If he reject our plans, have we not a right to expect that he would devote his powerful mind to the developement of some scheme of his own ? And if he will neither try what we offer, nor offer us anything himself, what pretensions can he have to our co-ope rating with him ?" These are arguments the pertinence and force of which will be felt and re membered—arguments which will be appreciated at their full value in Great Britain, no matter what may be their effect upon public opinion in Ireland. Mr. O'CONNELL will adopt what course he pleases upon the question of a Poor-law for Ireland ; but were he to be guided by our opinion, he would now take leave of the measure altogether. His opposition can only be productive of annoyance to the Government and evil to Ireland, by stimulating, in the minds of the landlords, a factious hostility to the Bill from the instant it is declared the law of the land. Besides, he should bear in mind, that, in opposing this measure against the expressed conviction of a ma jority of the Catholic Clergy, as well as people, he is recklessly destroying that influence which, so long as he retains, will enable him to effect the eradica tion of every abuse in the civil and political admi nistration of Ireland. We are ourselves convinced that but for his opinions upon the Poor-law question, the influence of Mr. O'CONNELL in England would he almost as great as it is in the City of which he is the Representative. 94 4 ,N? sq. •• X.. Zbt Z 31414 There are in Ireland five millions of acres of waste land capable of cultivation at a large profit, and two millions and a half of idle beggars. Were not Ireland thel and of anomalies, the co-existence of these two facts - would appear an absolute impossibility. It seems so lik e a contradiction in the laws of nature, that nothing short of the evidence of the senses can render it cre dible. If the political economist is asked to solve the problem, how there can be such an immense quantity of surplus labour on the very spot where so ample a field for its employment presents itself, he will answer at once th ere er,,h. be only one reason for this namel, the want of capital. Judgin g from the , p y rinciples which actuate men in all other circumstances, he would conclude, that did the proprietors of these waste lands possess the means of settin g this surplus labour in mo tion, they could not be so blind to their own interests ---to say nothing of the interests of the poor —a s not to avail themselves of so ready and obvious a method of increasing their wealth. be mo re Yet no conclusi on cou ld are not gelrroneous. in The Irish landl or d s, we b elieve, reatest n eon: The of capit a l, b ut generally in the g pecun',ary distress ; and it is this very circum stance that - renders their conduct so utterly mexcuse a. ble andfoarbaro us . U na bl e themselves to improve the lands, which now produce nothing , and th e cu l t i vat i on of which - would give empl o yment and bread to their starving countrymen, they have set their faces against All impr ovement o f t h ese lands by others. The bEng lish cap i ta li st h as offered to take the unproductive waste, lay out his money upon it, and restore it, in due time, to the proprietor, a fertile corn field ; but his offer has been rejected, as if it were little better than an insult. Our readers may recollect that, in 1836, a Company was formed, under the auspices of the Earl of DEVON, and other persons of rank and wealth, with a capital of half a million, for the purpose of cultivat ing waste lands in Ireland, and an Act of Parliament obtained granting the necessary powers. We hailed the formation of this Company as an earnest of good thing s to come for the Irish poor—as the commence ment of a system which would greatly contribute to the physical and moral amelioration of the sister island. But ‘:chat has been the result of a plan so beneficial in *its object to all classes of society there ? Will it; be lJelieved that owing to the perverseness and folly of the Irish proprietors, this Company have not been able to procure from them a single acre of waste land? And so little chance is there of the landholders Coming to a better mind, that notice has been given of a motion to be made at the next meeting of the Share holders for the dissolution of the Company Now if the Irish landholders flatter themselves that by preventing the extension of cultivation, they are likely to enhance the value of the land already culti -vatea—if their motive be to increase the already ex cessive and most pernicious competition for land among a starving, yet rapidly augmenting, population-- we must tell them that this policy is no less dangerous than it is short-sighted, selfish, and cruel. We must warn them that the maxim, " I may do as I like with my own," has its limitations, and that, as the right of property is founded not on private but on public bene fit, when that right is exercised in such a manner as to militate against the interests of the community, it must be subjected to such modification as shall render it subservient to those interests. Our attention has been drawn to this subject by an interesting little pamphlet, just published by HOOPER, of under the title of " Aids to the Irish Poor Law in the reclamation of Waste Lands." The au ;nor, GEORGE LEWIS SNIYTII, Esq., addresses • otmself to Lord JOAN RUSSELL, and recommends a Commission from the Crown as the only instrument by which a measure of so much importance, and so strongly opposed by the Irish landlords, can be carried into effect. The outlines of Mr. SmYTH's plan are sketched in the following propositions, which we ex tract frotn the pamphlet, that our Irish readers, who are, of course, chiefly interested, may hav e an oppor tunity of discussin g them :- 1. That the Commission should consist of three princi pals, together with a secretary, engineer, and clerks ; the fi at . liount of whose united salaries should be paid out of the pro 2. of the Commission. , That the Commissioners should be Commissioners of 1!i -itosure, Drain s and Sewers for all Bog and Marshy Lands in el4rid ' With such powers for those purposes as are held by stlntii,l,ar Commissioners in England ; and, particularly, power -(.) in repair all drains and sewers in and for such lands of li_c?Ughout the country ; and to levy a rate for the purpose e the h repairs, such rate not to exceed sixpence fortld of the fair annual rent of the lands upon, through, and b e the improvement of which, the drains and sewers may have en Constructed. a , Th at the Lords of the Treasury should be empowered tiZt cdireeted to issue to the Commissioners, for the purposes of ...ommission, a sum of 100,000/. per annum, ; such eapi hs;.lll to bear an interest of 31. per cent. per annum, and to L e Ntid at the rate of 1/ er cent. per annum, commencing tlae third • afte . ac p h issue. ap. 4 ,.; That the Year rc Commissioners should undertake the drain vt''' an at r• I - lands of Ireland, in such eor t i on lc aMation the waste k it thus and at such places as to them should seem fit ; R 'orno instance should they be authorized to lay out °flly - b` n e a n 41., on any one acre, and that such sum of 4/. should I , to draining, trenching, turning . up the sub to planting, and manuring, and in no case whatever to 4 a;: r ii h t a n t g i . t should be an instruction to the Commissioners, the hernselves of the earliest opportunity to let leases of l ees tah'lld drained, trenched, and turned up, in portions of not fai r , en ten acres, and at such growing rentals as might seem t rt l,ttn tir t3e provision being made in every lease for the . proper h e reps and elayingof the land, and more especially for ,p a 1r f th e drains and sewers, at such periods and in THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1838 such manner as to the Commissioners should seem expedient Or necessary. should ye ahrasv and power nd no to on g h e o r l d ; a b n u cl , :cast Tland tfohre Commissioners o that their powers as Commissioner: o,i Prania 6 should be continuous or r„rath9F Perm - " 7. That in. c 4e commissioners s h ou ld d eem i t expe• terms tl" di t ' 7. -, ~uertake the reclamation of any W aste L au d a, am p ee unable to come to an agreement with the t:Akneis, a jury o, three County Surveyors should i!e Iltipannelled before the Assistant I3arister of the pf-cop'r county, to assess the annual value of such land it Its unreclaimed state, and thereupon the Commissioner:B should be bound to pay the owner the annual Vl,ltt so assessed for a tertn of seven years; at the expiration of which time, in the event of no lease having been granted, and the Commissioners and the owner being still unable to agte% another like jury should he tummoued, to assess the fait annual value of the land in its then state ; the money laid out, and consequent charges upon it being duly considered and allowed% -..,. oevvers 8. The Commi'aiOners should hold all land taken and drained as mortgagees in possess.Nl, for the amount of so much of 014 4/. per acre as they might have expended or caused to bo expcaded upon h, 9. All rent ret'elved by the Commissioners, out of any lands held by or Under them, and producing over and above 6 per cent, per annum, upon the sum thereupon expended by them, at the stipulated rate of 4/. per acre, should be paid over to the landlord, without any further abatement or charge what ever) and a public register, with true copies of the leases and agreements for the holding and renting of land, should be kept by them, and be open daily f or i ns p ect i on at t h e ordinary office hour s of business. 10. All rent received by tho Commissioners at and under the rate at 6 per cent. upon the outlay, should go to pay, first, the 3 per cent. inttrest upon the Government advance : se condly, to repay that advance at the rate of 1 per cent. per annum: end thirdly, the salaries and expenses under the Corn misslon. The residue should form a fund far extending ope rritions, or for making small loans to the lessees or holders of reclaimed lands, at 3 per cent. per annum interest. 11. All land held by or under the Commissioners should be exempt from tithe and poor-rates for twenty-ono years. 12. Corpo ra ti ons , tenants f or lif e, and incapacitated per sons, should be empowered to make leases of waste lands to the Commissioners, subject to all charges and conditions im posable under the Act. 13. Tenants building or planting should be entitled to re ceive from the landlord, at the termination of their leases, the value of all stone-built and slated tenements erected by thorn, and the value of the standing timber. 14. The Commissioners should once a year report their undertakings, and deliver an account of their expenditure and receipts to Parliameit. 15. As the annual charges of the establishment of the Irish Board of Works do not exceed 5,5001., which is paid out of the Profit obtained by the interest paid on loans beyond the cost to Governm en t, i t wou ld b e proper to li m i t t h e ex p enses o f this Commissio n to the same amount. 16. The Act might be limited by a power to the Crown to revoke the Commission at the end of seven years, in the event of the proceedings under it proving unremunerative or unsa tisfactory. The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday have all been received. They bring advises frnm Bayonne of the 30th, which state that on the 27th ult. the Christinos under General O'DoNNELL advanced from San Sebastian and gallantly drove the Carlists from Orio, Usurbil, Lazarte, and Zurbieta. In this expe dition the Carlists lost upwards of seventy men in killed and wounded ; the number of casualties on the part of the QUEEN'S troops was comparatively trifling. Lord JOHN HAY and the marines co-operated with the force under General O'DONNELL, and to their bravery much of the success which attended this move ment may be attributed. The Secret Committee appointed to discuss the important affair of the Coats, has decided by a ma jority of one, that the Deputies shall be allowed to wear what dress they choose in the Chamber. Sensible people can only ask what excess of folly prompted the discussion of so ridiculous a subject. To render the affair still more absurd, no fewer than eight Journals are in the course of prosecution for publishing the nonsense uttered by the Deputies who composed this Committee before the report was laid before the Chamber--thereby committing a breach of privilege. Letters were received in Paris on Saturday, stating that Austria had granted eight millions of francs as a fresh subsidy to Don CARLOS, and that the agent by whom it was procured is now at St. Petersburg, after having visited Berlin, in order to obtain another grant from the Emperor. As for the PRETENDER himself, he was at Llodio on the 20th ult., but in no condition to undertake any new expedition. . . I , I'6:NCH Ftfl4l)B -Pants, FEL 2. five per Cents., 109 f. 95e. 85c. See. Four and a Half per Cents. 105 f. 105 f. 40c. Four per Cents., 101 f. 76e. 102 f. Three per Cents., 7ff. 65e. 750. Sic. Bank Actions, 2,6 - :Of. 2,0-sf. !tone do Naples, Off. bsc. boc. Roman Five per Cents., 101%%. Spanish Actives, If% Spanish Passives, 4%. Belgian Loan, 103%. Belgian Bank, 1,507 f. 50c. 1,500 f. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 1834, Dutch Two and a half per . Cents., 534,. H.iytian Lean, 3S2f. 50e. EXCMANGIII ON LONDON. o.e month, paper, 25f. 45.1.; money, 25f. 45e, T.+ree montns, paper, 25f. /12 1 ,c.; money, 25f. 90e. LAST PRICES, Five per Cents. 110 f. Three per Cents., 79f. 90c, Bank Actions, 2,625 f. Romans, 10F, , i. Belgian Loin, 103%. Belgian Bank, 1,503 f. Haytian Loan, 3S2c. 50c. Portuguese Three per Cents., 16%. Spanish Actives, 133 j. Spanish Passives, 4%. Spanish Differes, 5 3 4. Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 53!4. Brussels and German Papers have been received this morning. The Belgian Chambers were occupied with the details of a Sugar Bill. Advices from Athens of the 14th of January report the arrival of Russia's share of the third instalment of the Greek Loan. This news is too good to be true, especially as the EMPEROR has no money to spare at present. M. SPANIOLOCIII has been appointed Finance Minister, in the zoom of M. POTASI, whose disgrace followed on the heels of M. VON RUDIIABT'S dismissal. Letters from Constantinople of the 3d ult. represent the Circarsians as having obtained several victories over the Russians. The Chiefs are in high spirits, and it is calculated that it will cost Russia an ocean of blood to deprive them of their independence. GOTTINGEN, JAN. 22.—The election of the Pro-rector for the usual half-year, which is not likely to be very brilliant, took place yesterday. Professor Gresler had two votes more than 0. Muller, who would probably not have been confirmed by the Government, because of his open adherence to the Pro fessors. Professor Gresler is the celebrated author of a learned and liberal Church History. BELGIAN k UNDS—BRUSSELS, Fee 3. Actual Debt, *,,; per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lolii Loan of Thirty Millions 94 Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent.... 98% Society of Commerce, 4 aper Cent 13”4 Bank of Bel g ium, i per Cent 1.15% National Society —Brussels Papers, Feb. 3. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JAN. 26. Five per Cents. Metalli q ues Four per Cents. Three per Cents Bank Share, —4/lgerncine Zeitung. Jan. 31. DRURY-LANE. - - Mr. Charles Kean performed Hamlet for the twelfth time at this . theatre oa Friday evening. We witnessed his first representation of the diversity part here a few we e k s ago, an d were cons i dera bl y amu sed by diversity of contradict or y no ti ces w hi c h appeare d respec ti n g it in the Papers. The critics seemed to have been altogether puzzled what t say about it--not two of them agreed in thei r o pi n i o n of any port ion of the performance. W e were h appy t h at b efor e express i ng our jud orient regarding it, we h ave h a d an opportun i ty of v i ew i ng it , w hen the excitement of novelty, and (as respects the actor) under circumstances more favourable than those which the nervousness of a first appear ance is calculated to produce. Mr. Kean's performance was undoubtedly one of first-rate ability, an d displayed talents, we will add, genius, which augur weal for his successlin others of Shakspcare's characters. And, if it did not wholly correspon d with our conception of the character, the fault is one which he bolds in common with all the actors we have seen assume the part. lsinne of them have given us the Hamlet of Shakspeare. the character of the Prince of Denmark is composed of so many different opposing there is in it a depth of th oug ht— a subtlety of apprehension—a refine. ment and delicacy of f ee li ng — t h at, altogether, it is, perhaps, one of the most difficult in the w h o l e range o f the Shaksyearian Drama, r i g htly to comprehend, and faithfully t o represent. elem ents, If we might be allowed to state our conception of Hamlet's character, in order to render snore intelligible our strictures upon Mr. C. Klan's performance, we should say that hi Hamlet the impubes of a noble and generous heart, deeply susceptible of the warmest emotions and the ten. derest sympathies, are acted upon and controlled by the workings of an Wheat, Red (old) s2s. 60s. --White (01d)... 555. 655. --Ited 11 - 3:37) 42e. 465. --- Fine 48s. 525. Beans, Small (new) Mtn' (old) 42s,4er. - 'rick (new) 2Bs air. (old) 3fis.3Bs. •---- Superfine 51s. 575. IlarroW (new) 325.345. White (1837) 44s. 535. -- (old) 4os. 425. - Fine s4s. s7s. Brank --- Superfine 583. fills. Oats, Feed —s.—s. --Foreign free 50s 688. Rye 30s. Ms. Poland —B.—s, Barley 0 2s. 255. New gas. 24 s. Grinding 25s 275. Potatee 263.305. - Malting 90s. Ms. Malt 465. 545. - Scotch 24s. 975. - Fine New 563. 60s. Irish 17s. Pease, Grey, New 303. 31s. Flour Town per sack) 503.525. - Maple New 325.'33. - Seconds 455. 4145. -- White 355. 353. - North Country .......42s 44s -- Boilers "'IP , . 38 , Brats B3 9,. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET. Prices to-day rose considerably, with a small market, and the weather favourable to trade. Beef and Mutton rose 4d. per stone. The town is almost clear of meat, and the butchers bought freely. Veal and Pork sold very high. Irish Pigs advanced considerably. The advance on Meat to-day can well be borne; as prices now, all things considered, are not high, neither is the grazier fairly remunerated even now. ritteßs PER STONE OF BLE• TO SINK THE OFFA LS. s. d. to s. d 8. d. to s. d. interior Beasts Second quality ditto 2 6 3 0 Second quality ditto 1 4 3 0 Crime large Oxen ..... .... 3 0 3 8 CoarsP-woolled ditto .... 310 4 8 Prime Scots, &c. Large coarse Calves 4 8 5 4 Large Hogs 3 2 4 S 1' rime small ditto svckling Calves each6..l7 o 35 0 Quarter old Pig teach) 11. u 20 0 SUPPLY AT MARKET. Pasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I Pies '2 , 8 1 0 22,526 125 791 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. s d. to s d. s d. to s d. "eef, inferior 2lO 3• Mutton, i n ferior 1 4 3 6 - middling ...... ...... 3 2 3 4 middling........ 3 8 310 prime large prime small 3 8 310 Pork, large Veal 4" a 3 small 4 8 3 4 COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) WHALEY V WRIGHT. The Court has been occupied the whole day with this case, which was merely a question of accounts, arising out of the sale of a tilbury by the ' '^"daiit for the plaintiff. ^ger a brief examination of the accounts, disallowed a por- The Jury, - stt•of, alid gave a verdict for the plaintiff— tion of the defendan... IN. 15s. 10d. QUEEN'S BENCH--(T,II_IS DAY.) (Before Lord DENMAN and a Common Jury.) BOYS V. PINK ♦ND OTHERS. Mr. ALEXANDER stated the case. It was an action brought to re cover damages for injury sustained by the plaintiff in consequence of the negligence of the defendants' servants. The plaintiff is a print seller, and his agent in Bristol sent by the defendants' van to London three eases of engravings, one of which was so damaged by wet as to be quite Unsaleable, The engravings contained in the caso were proof and other iMpressions in mezzotinto of the portrait of the Duke of Gordon, from a picture in the possession of the Duchess of Gordon, painted by Saundersi, and a few portraits of Lady Peel. The defendant's had of fered 10/, as a compensation for the injury sustained, which had been refused by the plaintiff. Several witnesses were then examined for the plaintiff, after which Mr, BAIA addressed the Jury for the defendants. There were two questions befdre than—one whether the defendants had been guilty of negligence; and, seco;':!11Y) whether the defendants were, or were not, protected by an Act of ParlianSant, called the Carriers Act, which re quired that notice should be given, •;:hea articles of a more delicate tex ture or higher value were given to their chaT5C, and a higher shun paid for their carriage. He would prove to their satisfaction that there Vas every proper care taken of the packages, while in the defendants' cus tody; and he would call their attention to the Carriers' Act (Ist Will. IV., c. 68), which specified " engravings" as among the articles of which notice should be given. The Act provided that the carrier was not liable for the injury, unless the contents of the package were declared, its value stated, and a higher rate of carriage paid, for the extra care it required. James Wyse, porter in the defendants' office at Bristol, proved having received the cases, and that they were carefully packed. The weather was warm and very dry. They were covered with a sheet and tarpau line, and could not have been wet if it rained for a month. Henry Cornish, the porter in London, gave similar evidence. Mr. ALEXANDER having replied, Lord DENMAN summed up to the Jury, who found a verdict for the plaintiff on the first count, which alleged negligence; and for the de fendants on the second count, tinder the Carriers' Act. intellect at once powerful, comprehensive, and acute, but so accustomed to " consider" too curiously, so penetrating, so ceaseless, and so nice in ,ts enquiries, that his vutnios Are no sooner roused than they are en_ • • --• "r Investigation ; and tangled in the interminable mazes _ _ " Thug, the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprizes of great pith and moment In this regard theft` eurrentt turn awry, And lose the name of action:" Now we do not think that Mr. C: Kean gave sufficient prominence to that wind] we May call the intellectual part of Hamlet. He well potlrtrayed Hamlet's deep, filial grief for his father's death and veneration for hit MernOry 1 his horror On discovering the " foul, unnatural murder"—his detestation Of the guilty usurper— his love for his Mothermingled with his abhafrence of her unfeel. ingly hasty re-illaffiage-- , -hit Warm attachment to' the lietlest-hearted Horatio, and his conteMpt for the gtifel find& the mask of friend ship, would go about to entriP hint into the ardent, intense devotedness of his affectiftn for Opheliii. But he did nost td frilly et. press the philosophical reflection of EtaTidet--41is lofty and abstracted contemPlation=the 66 effusions of his poetiCal hiltiginatidn—his pa thetic moraliiing tin lihmin rilortglity: Mr. Kean is too fe;ui of s pas, sionate—a declamatory, ai;(I dl tiiJies a tinting{ nidde of delivery which does not accord with the cool reflective chaffieta df Hierrilek: Thiit splendid passage, " What a piece of work is man !" &c., was marred b, OAS an. happy tendency. The same fault was occasionally visible in the scelle with Ophelia; and in the lines, " Imperious Caesar, dead, and turned to clay," &c., in the grave scene—the whole of which was deficient in that solemn pathos which the poet has thrown around it. Mr. C. Kean's acting, however, in the play scene, and that with his mother, was as fine and impressive as we have ever seen. Nothing could exceed the effect of his whisper, " Is it the King ?" or of his bitter irony, " Let the galled jade wince," &c. In the scenes with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern he was excellent. One great merit of the performance was the generally natural and unaffected style of his acting, and the easy dignity with which he entered into the lighter and more familiar conversations. This gave a charm to his delivery of the advice to the players, yet we never heard it given so much in the spirit of its own instructions. It is impossible to speak in too laudatory terms of Mr. C. Kean's performance of the last scene. His fencing was one of the most scientific and graceful exhibi tions of the kind ever beheld ; and the death was in the highest degree impressive and affecting. Of the other performances Mr. Cooper's Ghost was the best specimen of sepulchral elt - nltion we have listened to. Miss Romer's Ophelia was clever, but not the gentle, plaintive, simple Ophe lia of the poet. Mr. Cook's Horatio was good, and MN, Ternan's Gertrude in more than one instance displayed no mean power of acting. Mr. King's Laertes, but— " The rest is silence." This evening Mr. Kean will play Richard the Third, and we anxiously wait to see whether he will in this character, so peculiarly interesting from its association with his immortal father, justify the favourable opi nion of his talents we have here ventured to express. AMUSEMENTS FOR THE WEEK. If the attraction which has attended the performance of Hamlet, in its unprecedent run of twelve successive nights; of Macbeth, which has been repeated every Monday night to full houses for many weeks past; and of King Lear, which has produced bumpers for the four nights it has been performed, and promises a succession of them for many to come —may be regarded as fair criteria of success, a return to "legitimate drama," the loss of which has so long been a subject of lamentation, cannot be considered as far distant. At Drury-Lane Theatre to-night Mr. Charles Kean will appear for the first timeas Gloster, in Richard the Thrrd, in which he will re-appear on Friday ; and on 'Wednesday, in compliance with the wishes of many who have not yet had an opportunity of witnessing his performance, he will play Hamlet. To-morrow, the Merry Wives of Windsor. On Thursday Gustavus the Third, and Our Mary Anne. To conclude every evening with the pantomime of Jack o' Lantern. At Covent-garden to-night Shakspeare's tragedy of Macbeth, and on Wednesday and Friday King Lear, in which characters Mr. Macready will appear; to-morrow and Thursday Rooke's opera of Amelie, or the Love Test. To conclude every evening with the pantomime of Hark. quin and Peeping Tom of Coventry. Opera Buffa (Lyceum)—The last performances but two of the present season. To-morrow night Donizetti's opera of L'Xlisir d'Amore with Belly; on Thursday, Mozart's grand opera of La Nozze di Figaro, with, between the acts, Mozart's overture to Zauberflote. On Saturday Mercadante's opera of Elisa c Claudio, with Donizetti's farce of Il Cam. panello. At the Adelphi to.night, and during the week, the miraculous per. formances of Hervio Nano, in The Gnome Fly ; after which The Black Domino ; and All for Love, or the Lost Pleiad. The Olympic tonight and during the week—Shocking Events, fol. lowed by The Black Domino, the Ringdoves, and Puss in Boots. At St. James's to-night, will be revived Morton's musical drama of The Slave, in which Mr. Braham will play Captain Malcolm ; Harley, Fogrum ; Hall, Sam Sharpset, and Miss Rainforth, Zelinda : followed by The Black Domino, and A Day in Paris. The Surrey to-night presents a new domestic drama, intitled Earl Poverty; or, The Old Wooden House of London Wall; after which Crossing the Line; to conclude with the pantomime of Old Dame Trot and her Comical Cat. City of London (Norton Folgate) tonight, and every evening this week, Paul Chord, with Perfection, and Forty and Fifty. MARKETS.-(THIS DAY ) CORN EXCHANGE. The river being still impeded by a considerable quantity of broken ice, prevents the vessels from coming up, and the report of arrivals is very small. There is no business of any consequence doing here to day, and the attendance of persons has been unusually small. The Flour trade is slack, as the millers will not sell without obtaining ad vanced prices, with which the bakers are not disposed to comply. PRICES OT BOAR) OF SHIP. PROVISION MARKET. For the last four or five weeks the dealers have mostly been out of this Market. Their stocks must be low ; and if this weather continue the dealers must come to buy. At present there is but little doing, and prices of all kinds unvaried from last week. WOOL MARKET. sen t off, that prices do n o t a d vance. This M a rket is very brisk, an d it i s owing solely to the obstruct i on o f being c Oils. are dull,TA L b L u O t S r : AND varied iOlLnprice MARKET.f from last i n l an d and other navigation by the ice, whi c h preven t p arce ls from sks t is dull to-day at 495. The stock i s somew h ere a b out 16 , 500 week. C OLONIAL MARKETS. To -day there are no publi c sa l es whatever, and by private contract but little stirring. As far as the disposition to sell shows itself in the prospec ti v e state of the markets fro m a d vert i sements, there is not much manifest. The sales for this week at present announced are but few. The chief articles are Rice, Saltpetre, and Bengal Sugar ; there are also some Drug s. For to-morrow we have a d ver ti sements of Rice and Salt petre to a large amount. Ho lders have considerable confiden ce i n p re sent prices, and the disposition of the market appears to be upwards. The imports yet are very slender ; Canadian produce is stationary. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, FEII. 3. At this day's market one house purchased A lot of 2,000 bales of Or leans, and fully 2,000 of other descriptions have met with purchasers at our quotations. The business closed very firmly :-50 Maranham, 91d. ; 7 0 E g yptians, ; 2,000 Orleans, 7id. to B}d.; 1,880 American, Gad. to B}d. —Tot al 4,000 . LIVERPOOL DRY SALTERY MARKET. It is in this market as in our own generally that prices where they alter advance. Indigo continues unaltered. The return of the frost with so much severity necessarily interferes seriously with business. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. DERBY CORN MARKET, FEE. 9.. Our Cern Market to-day was well supplied, but sales were very heavy, and only the fine Wheat and Barley sought after at last week's prices Best 'Wheats. 575. to 625. ; Fine Barley, 30s. to 345. ; Grinding ditto, 255. to 28 s . ; Oats, 20s. to 265. ; Beans, 325. to 445. NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, Feb. 3. We had a fair supply of Wheat at Market to-day from the interior, but very limited coasting arrivals, and the sale was brisk at the prices of this day se'nnight. There was very little Norfolk or Suffolk Barley of fering for sale, and prices may be considered nominally the same. The supply of Oats from the growers was large, cleared off at la s t wee k' s rates. Malt continues a du ll sa l e, th oug h without any f urther alteration in value. For Rye, there is rather more demand, at our quotat i ons. Beans and Pease rema i n w ith ou t ch ange Flour meets a fai r sa l e a t our quotat i ons. and the whole quickly New. Old. Wheat, Northum'verland 55, 595. s 2s. 61 '.1 -- Norfolk and Suffolk 545. 60,.......56a. 695. •- Berwick and Scotch s3s —5...••., —i Ms. Foreign Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk --- Foreign s —., —s. — s. t•%:, Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Sufll4lk... 30s. 34s ----11orGe.---irgitn)ding and Feeding ,e lkfalt, Norfolk and Suffolk Beans, Small --- Tick Pease, White 965. Ps. ..... --s. —.. Gray Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe 2lB. 21s —s• —s. 19s 22i....... —s. —a. —s. —5 ....... .--8. S. s—' :- 2: 5 . . —S -8 57s ....... 3- 3 - 2 5: :: Sts. 3 (3'e :a. Flour (per sack' • DEVIZES CORN MARKET.—Feb 1 Per Sack. s d. s. d. Per Quarter. s . d. ( 1 . '6 Uto 36 F:irstWheat... 3l 0 • to 33 0 Barley Second .............. "8 0 - 30 0 Oats ... Third ................ "6 0 .6 6 Beans (per sack) IS 0 '23 (()) 14 ,1 3 Sacks of Wheat sold/ Flour (per bag) 43 0 44 _ BIRMINGHAI I , 2 I 9 at the average of Wheat, 6' , lb 38 6 43 U Barley, imperial quarter Do. Grinding 49 lb. CORN 2 8rea1‘,11A(TKgia7,111,,.).F..0).11.2 0 Oats, 39 lb ' Old Beans 66)lb New ditto' l4 0 14 6 New White B o li ng P ease , 3 imp. bu s h. • Ditto Grey ditto It was resolved, at a highly respectable meeting held at Falmouth, on Monday, to widen and make deeper the harbour of that port, for which purpose a subscription was entered into, and a memorial to the Government unanimously adopted, seeking asssistance in this important undertaking Upwards of 1,0001. was subscribed in the room,—Cornwall Royal Gazette. " That this enthusiastic loyalty found an echo in the breasts of the inhabitants of this province is my most cheering persuasion, the more especially as the particular object in which I have deemed it my duty to call you together at this early period, is to invite your attention to the lamentable state to which the treasonable and rebellious proceedings of a certain portion of its deluded inhabitants have reduced the neigh bouring province of Lower Canada The disaffected having availed themselves of the season of the year, when succours from the mother country are believed to b• excluded by the rigour of the cli mate, it appears to be in a more especial manner incumbent upon her Majesty's loyal subjects in the surrounding colonies to stand forward, not with the mere expression of their sympathies, but if re. quired, in active support of the Royal authority, and in aid of . their loyal fellow subjects in Lower Canada, now contending against the desperate efforts of a revolutionary faction, for the preservation to themselves and their descendants, of the inestimable blessings of l3ri. tish connexion. " The mode and extent of this aid your own loyalty and wisdom will best divine; for myself I will only add that my individual services in the furtherance of such an object shall be afforded with all the energy of which I am capable, and in any manner in which it may be consi. dered that they can best promote it. " I cannot upon this occasion refrain from expressing my high admira tion of the unchanged gallantry of the militia of our sister colony of Upper Canada, evinced in the prompt suppression by them, unaided by any portion of her Majesty's troops, of the revolutionary outbreak, which was attempted by some misguided persons in that province. Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly, " The Treasurer's accounts and all other documents which may be necessary for your information'in regard to the finances of the Province shall be laid before you with all suitable expedition; and I rely with entire confidence upon your accustomed zeal and liberality, to provide for the ordinary services and for all the other objects of public utility which may be deemed to require the boubty of the Legislature. " Mr. President and Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, " Several important despatches connected with the recent arrange. ments of the provincial revenues will be made the subject of sepa rate messages. In the meantime, it is my pleasing duty to de clare to you, that the same sentiments of live.ly solicitude to promote the interest and happiness of the people of this province which pervaded every act by which his late Majesty was known and endeared to them, will be found to influence our preicut most gracious Sovereign." CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY). The business of the sessiong having closed this morning, the Recorder proceeded to the New Court, and pissed sentence upon the several pri_ soners who have been convicted. The following were ordered to be transported for life :—Daniai Ma bony and Patrick Mahony, for manslaughter. For fifteen years—H. Williams. For fourteen years—James Woodward and George Owen. For Ten Years—C. Collins ; Thomas Pickling; W. Linwell ; J. Baker ; R. Lovell; R. Nye; W. Warren ; W. Smith ; Thomas Hob den; Charles White; W. Began; J. Jenkins; J. Hall; W. Goddard; J. Lane; NV. Chant. Twenty-six were transported for Seven Years. Patrick Hughs, for an aggravated assault, was sentenced to three years hard labour, and George Edwards to two years. Several others were sentenced to minor‘terms of imprisonment. • • Captain Cain for manslaughter, was sentenced to two years imprison. ment in the Penitentiary at Milbank. On Captain Battersby, who had been convicted of bigamy, being called up to receive sentence, Mr. Price moved an arrest of judgment on the groud of the indictment being defective. Mr. CLARKSON was heard on the other side. The RECORDER decided that the indictment was good both in point of law and of precedent, and sentenced the prisoner to seven years' trans portation. The COURT then adjourned to the 26th. THE FUNDS:-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have received New Brunswick Papers to the 31st December. The day before his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor opened the Session with the following speech :-- " Mr. President and Honourable Gentlei - 3en of the Legislative Council, " The loss which the nation has sustained jn the death of his late Majesty William the Fourth, of revered memory, 12as been followed by an exhibition of national feeling, from which every loya; subject in our widely extended Colonial Empire will not fail to derive both Consolation and satisfaction. " I refer to that unequivocal manifestation of deep-rooted veneratirn for its ancient monarchical institutions, which simultaneously burst forth in expressions of the most ardent loyalty from every part of the mother country, upon the occasion of the accession of her Majesty Queen Victoria to the throne of these realms. _ . PRIVATE BUSINESS o; 4 ' PARLIA. MENT-(THIS DAY.)` PETITIONS ON PRIVATE BILLS SUB-COMM ITTEE—No, 3. Members present—Mr. Aglionby, Chairman ; Mr. John Bowes, Mr. Stansfield, Lord \Vorsley, and Mr. Easthope. ST. LUKE'S HoSPiTAL—Petition of Governor, &c., as to the ad vantage of protecting contiguous property; time specified by Che Standing Orders—No. 4, page 15. The petition was opposed on behalf of the Railway Company, it being contended by them that the order did not (from the wording) apply to this Bill.—Committee left in consultation. The Subcommittee, No. 1., met, Mr. Lefevro in the chair. They agr ,•ed to take the first ten cases. _ _ No, 1. The Necropolis Cemetry for Somers Tovn, Kentish Town, &c., petition read, and notice regularly proved ; unvposed. No. 2. 'Witch= (Cambridgeshire) Inclosure, PetiOon read; Notices proved, and opposed. No. 3. Sutton (Cambridgeshire) Inclosure, Petition read ; Notices • proved, and opposed. No. 4. I orn:on and Greenwich Railway.—Petition read ; notices proved; unopposed. _ • .. No. 5. Anti-Dry Rot Company,—Petition read; notices proved; unopposed. _ _ NO. 6. Quedgeley (Gloucester) Inclosure. Petition read. Notices proved. Unopposed. No. 7. Montgomeryshire (Western Branch) Canal Petition read.: Notices in the London Gazette not in compliance with the Standing' Orders. To be referred to Standing Orders Committee. Unopposed. No. S. Torquay Road.—Petition read. Opposed by two petitions. One irregularly for the adjournment of the House, the other for the same parties, both complaining of the same engineering deficiences. James 'Vest surveyor, examined and cross-examined as to the plan and sections being duplicates. Evidence adduced to prove they did not correspand. Objected, that the required uniformity was only with re.. gard to railvvays, and not to roads. Overruled. Notices to be proved. Case adjourned for further evidence till next Friday. No. 9. Towcester and klardingstoir-road.—Petition read. Notices proved. Unopposed. No. 10. Leominster Improvement.—PetiNon read. An irregularity in the notice in the London Gazette referred to the Standing Orders Committee unopposed. NAMES of MEMBERS serving on each of the SUB COMMITTEES on PETITIONS for PRIVATE BILLS. SUB. Lefcvre, C. S. Baines, E. Clive, R. H. Gordon, Hon. \V. SUB, COMMITTEE, No. Johnstone, Hope Stuart, W. Vi Tiers Strutt, Edward COMMITTEE, No. Phillips, G. Eastnor, Viscount Baring, %V. B. Wrightson, W. B. Cavendish, }Jon. G. Compton, FL C. Handley, H. Palmer, R. Bramston, T. W. Clements, Lord Hope, H. T. Bell, Matthew Craig, W. Gibson O'Connor Don Style, Sir T. C. 3. Aglionby, H. A. S;r J. Y. Cralc!ord, Jones, T. SUB-COMMITTEE, No. Hodges, J. L. Bowes, Chalmers, P. Egerton, W.T. Stanstield, W. IL C Worsley, Lord -COMMITTEE, No, Mildmay, P. St. J. Dunlop, J. i:alford, H. Greene, T. Pease, Joseph Sanford, E. A. Verney, Sir H. O'Connell, M. J. Poulter, J. S. Wodehouse, Hon. E. NO, 1. FINSBURY SMALL OMITS BlLL.—This is a Bill to recover debts under 101. by a Co.'lrt of Request, to be proved by 130 Commissioners, taken from the following parishes, viz, 8 For St. George Bloomsbury. 30 For St. James Clerkenwelle 8 For St. Giles in the Fields. 10 For the United parishes of St. Andrew Holborn and St. George the Martyr. 26 For St. Mary Islington, 26 For St. Luke. 4 For the Liberty of the Rolls. 6 For the Liberty of Saffron-hill, , Hattor•garden, and Ely place. 6 For Glasshouse-nard. 6 For St. Sepulchre. THE FUNDS. In the early part of Saturday the British Funds were heavy, with a downward appearance ; but on the arrival of the President's Message to Congress, which gives hope to the speculators that the affair of the American steamer would in the end be amicably settled, the market became revived, and Consols closed at 91 Fi 92 for the Account—opened this morning at 911 92—now 91 .y, ; ; Exchequer Bilis, 56 58, 21d. per day ; India Bonds, 56 58 ; Bank Stock, 205 % 2061 ; India Stock, 26434 265 %. In the Foreign Market little doing as yet. Spanish Active, 19 li ; Portuguese, 27* 28 ; Three per Cents, 17 % 181 ; Mexican, 271 ; Consols are not so good at present—receded from 91 ', 7 ;, 92 to 91 % '7 B . PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 20 5 1,E India Stork ... 20314 4 3 per Cent. lied. 92%344 ditto Bonds — pm. 3 per Cent. Cons... 91% 0 1% South Sea Stock 3% per Cent WO% Old tnnnities ... ..... .... — Ditto Red. 100%54 New Ditto New 354 per Cent 99 % % % 3 per Cent. Annuities. 1751... New 5 per Cent.. Bank Long Annuitiestoexpire Ditto 500 57 56 58 56 pm. Jan, 5, 1860 14 11-16 Ditto Small Oct. 10. 1R59 Jan. 5, 1860 — Ditto Advertised — poi Jan. 5, 1680 — Bank Stock for Account — April 5, IS , 'i — InfP.3 Stock for Account — Jan. 5, i ,i 711... - Copsnls for Aeccnnt 91% 2 1% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'C.L.OOK. Austrian bonds Beltim Bonds — , Ditto Account ....... ........ ... Ditto Account ... Portuguese Bonds — Brazilian Bonds ... ..... ... ...... Ditto Account — Ditto Account 7434% la Ditto New Bond„ — Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account ..... Ditto Account ........ ........ .. Ditto, 3 per cent. — billian Bonds Pritsniati Bonds — Ditto Account ......... ........ Ru.sian Bonds, 1822 ...... 112!,i 12 Columbian Bonds. — Ditto Account ...... ........... Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1824... Ditto Account Dini:h 80nd5......._ Ditto Bonds,lßlt lO Ditto Account Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 1825 — 4 per cent Ditto Account .... ....... ....... —— n per cent. Mexican Bonds, S per cent.... —-- Exchange 23f. 50 Ditto Account ...... ..... ...... Dutch, 21. i, per cent 51% 3 Ditto, 6 per cent. Ditto Account ...... ......... .. —1 Ditto, 5 per cient. 10254 2 Neapolitan I Ditto Account — PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLuCK Paid. Per Share Brazilian Imperial Mining Co. (issued at 51. pm.) 20 Ditto St. John del Rey Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Company l5 Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Conioany. ...... Eastern Counties Railway 3 Great estern Railway Company 65 Brighton Railway Company London and Southampton (Newt Railway 5 51:.nehester and Birmingham Railway 7 Colonial Bank PRICES OF IRISII STOCKS. DUBLIN, FEBRUARY 3. 3T;, 1 - 35 8 ►% 63Y, 2!,', 9 9.1 1 4 I 3 per Cent. Consols , 91% Grand Canal Debs. 0 per cent. 911 i)itt• Reduced — Ditto, 4 per cent ... ........ ... DA 3% per Cent. Stock OS% Hibernian Bank. Ditto New, Id3o ... 3% per Cent. Debentures Bank Stock Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock 94a4 cent — HALF--PAST ORE O'CLOCK. Great anxiety is felt in the city for the arrival of the New York Packet of the 10th ult., to ascertain the state of affairs with the Presi dent since the last Message to the House of Representatives, in which he demands some kind of amende honorable of the British Government for the late attack on the American steamer. The prevailing opinion is that the President is not justified in his demand. Navy Island is British property, and the American citizens have no right to assist the rebels there, who have taken unlawful possession of it. Up to the present hour we do net hear of any arrivals from the United States; the wind being contrary, we fear, it will be some days before the packet makes the British coast. Consols continue rather heavy at 91A for the Account ; Exche quer Bills, 57 58 56 ; India Bonds, 14 16, to be paid off; Bank Stock, 205; ; India, 2631 264. In the Foreign Market little doing. Spanish Active, 19 ; Brazil not so good, they reached 74i to 75, at present 74 to ; Portuguese, 271 28 ; Three per Cents., 17 18 IA ; Dutch, 53 ; Brazil, 74f in the morning. Brighton Shares not so good, owing to a report that the Queen is going to build a Palace between Ramsgate and Walmer. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 91 ELECTION COMMITTEES.—The Post admonishes the Conservative Members to recollect that the Election Com mittees will be selected on the 6th instant--an admonition which we copy for the benefit of Reformers. All the Liberal Members must attend on the 6th to prevent the success of the 1,500 clerical conspirators known in common parlance as the Spottiswood gang. Mr. Charles Kean makes his first appearance in Richard the Third this evening, the tragedy being prepared with great care and expenEe, 130 To be elected by tho parishioners (personal single votes) in each parish, and to have an estate of 1,0001. each ; first chief clerk to be George Alexander Macphail, of Lloyd-street, Lloyd-square, Clerkenwel!, with not less than 500/. per ann., to be increased if thought proper, with an assistant clerk, beadles, sergeants, criers, &c. Court to meet every Tuesday and. Friday. Three Commissioners to be necessary for debts under 4os; rye, under Si. ; jurisdiction to extend to 10/. ; power to subpcena witnesses, and to fine them for not attending 31., or imprison them 60 days ; power of execution on goods, and sale after eight days; if insufficient goods, to imprison the body for not more than 14 ctms, except for secreting goods 30 days ; attornies excepted Loc.'? the Act. All the usual clauses, and a clause to except the hunAred of Ossulton, in the county of Middlesex, from this Act._, ( Mr. James Young, 8, Furnival's Inn, Holborn, solicitor. ) 2. ASHBY DE LA ZOUCII'S SMALL. DEBT BILL.—To recover debts under 101 . in seventy-five parisL's in the counties of Lei cester, Derby, Warwick, and Stafford, co.ltiguous to Ashby de la Zouch, by 150 Commissioners, who are na:Tied in the Bill, and are to meet once in every parish, or oftener Il e need be, three to act under 40s. and five above. New Comn..issioners to be elected when the 150 are reduced by death to 50,. who are to be worth 1,000/. or 401. per annum, invested with poNer to no minate Clerks and Officers. Clerk to appoint a Deputy— power to subpcena witnesses, who for not attending, to be fined, not exceeding 51.—power to issue execution, and goods to be sold five days after—if inefficient goods, to imprison body ror seven days. Plaintiff to allow 6d. per day during such impri sonment, except for fraud, not exceeding 30 days. Attorneys not excepted from the Act. All the usual clauses.—(Thos. Peddocke, Solicitor, Ashby de la Zouch.) 3. OAKIIAM SNIALL DEBTS BILL.—To recover debts under in 119 parishes in the counties of Rutland, Leicester, and Northampton' within eight miles of Oakham in the county of Rutland, ,!‘v a Court of Requests, to consist of 150 Com missioners, who ve named, and arc to meet twice a month— on a Thursday at O. akham, and on a Tuesday at Uppingham— three to be a quorum uder 405., and five above. All Com missioners to be worth 500/., or 40/. per annum. Power to appoint clerk and officei.s. Clerk to appoint deputy. To issue subpwnas. Witness not' attending, to be fined not ex- • seeding Si. Certain persons, ha.ving agreed to subscribe for expenses of passing this Act, powerto proceed against them if they do not pay within fourteen day'. Power to issue exe cution against goods, and sell at the en± of five days ; if in sufficient goods, to take the body for not more than seven days—except fur fraud, then not more tha.'a twenty days. Attornies not excepted. All the usual clauses.- _(W. Gilson, H. Hough, solicitors, Rutland.) [The above are all the Small Debts Bills at present before Parliament.] GUILDHALL.(THIS DAY.) Rickard Ralson, a sailor, belonging to the barque, Kingston ; a youth of the name of Blessing, :ind his aunt, an elderly female, named Lontny, were brought up for examination, charged, the former with stealing four blankets and a counterpane, the prop,,rty of Joshua Stacy; and the latter with receiving them, knowing them to t: stolen. A person came forward and stated, th:t he had known the female prisoner for upwards of thirty years, and 5110 always bore an unex. ccptionable character. Sir PETER LAURIE discharged the female and DiNsing, and made them witnesses against Balson. He was then committed to Newgate. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DA. DEAL, FRB. 3.—Wind N.E., moderate—Arrived from the Rives and proceeded, the Rapid, Field, for South Australia. Several vessels worked into the Downs from the westward—names unknown.- 4. E.N.E., blowing very strong.—Arrived from the River and sailed, the William Burton, Paton, for Jamaica. Arrived and remain, the St. James, Sebor, for New York ; Afflick, Ford, for Demerara ; and Falcon, Middlemost, for Madeira. Potrrsmount, FEB. 3.—Wind N.E. 5 line; 4, N.E., fresh breezes.— Arrived the Pheasant, Johnston, from Oclessa ; Caroline, Kemp, from Messina ; Sir F. B. Head, Revely, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Swan, Swan, from Hull; and Ann Carnavon, 12.,Zi11a, from Sunderland. Sailed, the Canning, Slater, for HartlepOol ; and her Majesty's brig Pantaloon, with provisians for the homcward-bound. PLA - motirli, FEB. 3.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived the Sun, Rafael, from Havannah ; Bengal, Wilson, from Calcutta; Ventor, front Viguera ; Ann M`Kenzie, Gates, from Liverpool, with loss of an zilch(); ; and Lark, Smith, from Dublin. Sailed her Majesty's ship Sea Horse, for the West Indies; and Tantivy, for Cardiff. Arrived the Mediter ranean, Venelin, from London ; and Regent, from Shoreham. FALMOUTH, FEB. 3.—Wind, E.N.E., fresh breezes.—Arrived the Lorrideren, Johnson, from Long Sound; Bridport, Follett, from Cork_ Off port, the Rubican, Rogers, from New Orleans. Sailed the Amine,. for Rochelle ; Sarah, Doyles, for Havre de Grace ; Barbara and Eliza beth, for Harfleur ; Turk, Lawsons, Heart of Oak, Waterloo, John Miller, Erin, Thetis, Fame, Plymouth, and Ruby, from London. DOVER, FED. 4.—Arrived the Catherine, Owen, from Sligo. Off port, the Emanuel, Man, Maria Johanna, Telegraph, from Messina; Navarino, Dran, from Sligo. CORK, FEB. 2.—Arrived the Sirius steamer, from London. lints Tor., Fee. 4.—Arrived the Fancy, Kitchner, Nelson, Phillipa,: from St. Michael's. JERSEY, FEu. 2.—Arrived the Robert Watt, Vibert, from Rio Janiero ; Superb and Charles, from Messina. PENZANCE, Feb. 3. Arrived off port, Caletangas, Laurence, from Honduras. SCILLY, Fee. :I.—Arrived the Adeline, Bradfield, from St. Michael's; Unity, Cafliere, from Messina. CLYDE, JAN. :I—Arrived, the Columbus, from New Orleans; the Eagle, Scott, from Charente; the Hanover, Crawford, from Gergente. LIVERPOOL, JAN 3 AND 4.—Wind light and variable.—Arrived the Huddersford, Noakes, from Bombay; Dyson, Stewart, from Valparaiso ; Oscar, Wylie, from Africa; John Begg, Trotter, from Africa ; Adriana, Jones, from Berbice ; Caspian, Betten, from Naichez ; Henry, Pearce. from New Orleans ; Louisa, Freeman, from Mobile; Angelo, from Sa vannah ; Gondola, Rennie, from Charleston ; Meridian, Williams, from Virginia; James Moray, Moran, from St. John's, New Erunswick ; Lanark, Simpson, from St. John's. New Brunswick ; Raynar, from Terceira; Star of the West, from Alexandria; Bispham, from Licata; Robert Sargeant, from the Mediterranean. Arrived off' port the St. Lawrence, from Savannah. Sailed the Dencallon, Winsor, for New Orleans; Ann Paley, Hunter, for Lisbon ; Amelia, for Genoa ; St. Laurence, for Cayenne ; Jean Graham, Thornton, for the Mauritius; Laidonans, Hughes, for Jamaica ; James Porter, Porter, for Halifax; Powhattan, I‘l'Cerran, for New Orleans; Elizsibeth Jane, Hart, for Honduras. SCILLY, Fan. I.—Arrived off port, the Montreal Griffin, from New York; William, Henderson, from Halifax. PENZANCE, FER. I.—Arrived off port, the Heba, Galloway, from Sydney, New South Wales. BRISTOL, FEB. I.—Arrived the Shepherdess, Richards, from St. Michael's. Prima, Barhache, bound to Jersey, is on shore at Shields, and must discharge. Arethusa, Turner, from Marseilles, put into shore after being on shore, The ('awton, Bo)ce, from Liverpool, was aground in the Dardanelles& on the 30th of December. - The Caroline, of Newcastle, fro:n Dalhousie, was wrecked on Car. raquel Island previous to the 190 of December ; crew, Cargo, and ma. terials saved. OPERA BUFFA.—The Performance on Thursday next will be by command of her Majesty, who will honour the theatre with her presence. L'Elisir d'Amore and Betly have been selected for the occasion. The National Anthem will be sung at the conclusion of L'Elisir d'Amore.